![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | What's Up for October? - NASA
What's Up for October? Moons and meteor showers.
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| Rover's Eye View of Three-Year Trek on Mars - NASA
During the three-year trek of NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, rover planners captured a horizon photograph at the end of each drive. 309 images taken during the 13-mile journey appear in this video.
Keywords: What -- Mars; What -- Opportunity; What -- Crater; Where -- Victoria
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| WISE Finds Fewer Asteroids near Earth - NASA
New observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, show there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thought.
Keywords: What -- Explorer; What -- WISE; What -- Earth
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| Aquarius Yields NASA's First Global Map of Ocean Salinity - NASA
Aquarius is making NASA's first space observations of ocean surface salinity variations, a key component of Earth's climate that is linked to the cycling of freshwater around our planet and that influences ocean circulation.
Keywords: What -- Aquarius
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| Mars Technology Finds Earth's Hidden Water - NASA
How do you find water in the driest places on Earth? Scientists use Mars to get answers.
Keywords: What -- Earth; What -- Mars
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| A Planet With Two Suns - NASA
These animations illustrate a planet circling two stars. The planet, Kepler-16b, was discovered by NASA's Kepler mission.
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| NASA's Journey Above Vesta - NASA
Asteroid Vesta as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
Keywords: What -- Vesta; What -- Dawn
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| Vesta False Color Shape Model - NASA
This false-color video of the giant asteroid Vesta was created from images taken by the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
Keywords: What -- Vesta; What -- Dawn
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| What's Up for September? - NASA
Enjoy a tour of lunar landing sites as NASA's GRAIL mission launches to the moon this month.
Keywords: What -- Grail; What -- Moon
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| NASA's Moon-Bound GRAIL Mission - NASA
NASA's GRAIL mission will explore Earth's nearest neighbor in unprecedented detail.
Keywords: What -- Grail
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| Flow of Ice Across Antarctica - NASA
These animations shows the motion of ice in Antarctica as measured by satellite data from the Canadian Space Agency, the Japanese Space Agency and the European Space Agency, and processed by NASA-funded research from the University of California, Irvine. The background image from the Landsat satellite is progressively replaced by a map of ice velocity, which is color-coded on a logarithmic scale.
Keywords: What -- Landsat; Where -- California
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| Curiosity Rover Trailer - NASA
This animation shows key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission Curiosity rover, which will launch in late 2011 and land on Mars in August 2012.
Keywords: What -- Mars
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| Simulation of What Juno Will 'See' From Jupiter Orbit - NASA
This animation shows how Jupiter will appear to the camera onboard NASA's Juno mission, called JunoCam, as the spacecraft goes through an orbit.
Keywords: What -- Jupiter
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| Possible Water Flows on Mars - NASA
Mysterious features on slopes hint there could be water flows on Mars.
Keywords: What -- Mars
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| Vesta Full Rotation Movie - NASA
In this movie, strung together from a series of images provided by the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft, we see a full rotation of Vesta, which occurs over the course of roughly five hours. These images were obtained on July 24, 2011, from a distance of about 3,200 miles (5,200 kilometers).
Keywords: What -- Dawn; What -- Vesta
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| What's Up for August? - NASA
Windy Saturn and Jupiter, Juno mission launch.
Keywords: What -- Saturn; What -- Jupiter
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| Curiosity at Kennedy Space Center - NASA
All the pieces are in place for the NASA Curiosity rover's upcoming launch to Mars.
Keywords: What -- Mars; Where -- Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
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| Unlocking Jupiter's Mysteries - NASA
NASA's Juno mission at Jupiter - unlocking the secrets of the solar system.
Keywords: What -- Jupiter
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| Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site: Gale crater - NASA
Get a bird's eye view of Curiosity's landing site on Mars: Gale crater.
Keywords: What -- Mars; What -- Crater
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| Spirit's Snapshots of Mars - NASA
These views of Mars are just a small sampling from the 124,000 images returned by the Spirit rover.
Keywords: What -- Mars; What -- Spirit
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| What's Up for July? - NASA
This month you can learn about asteroids, and see Vesta, as the Dawn spacecraft closes in.
Keywords: What -- Vesta; What -- Dawn
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| The Big Move for Next Mars Rover - NASA
Engineers and technicians have been planning for months and working for weeks on the big move for NASA's Mars Curiosity rover.
Keywords: What -- Mars
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| Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation - NASA
A narrated play-by-play of Curiosity's entry, descent, and landing on Mars!
Keywords: What -- Mars
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| Next Mars Rover in Action - NASA
This 11-minute animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012.
Keywords: What -- Mars
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| Packing for Florida - NASA
Time-lapse movie of the NASA Mars Curiosity rover's last days in the clean room before being shipped to Florida for launch.
Keywords: What -- Mars; Where -- Florida
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| Aquarius Update: Lift-off! - NASA
NASA's Aquarius begins its mission to study the salt in Earth's ocean.
Keywords: What -- Aquarius
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| Imagine Mars Overview - NASA
The Imagine Mars Project gives students a chance to work with scientists and engineers to build and design a future human community on Mars.
Keywords: What -- Mars
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| Aquarius Update: Ready for Launch - NASA
Engineers make the finishing touches readying Aquarius for launch.
Keywords: What -- Aquarius
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| Vesta's Surface Comes into View - NASA
This movie shows surface details beginning to resolve as NASA's Dawn spacecraft closes in on the giant asteroid Vesta.
Keywords: What -- Dawn; What -- Vesta
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| Create a Comet With Dry Ice - NASA
Learn how to build an icy model of a comet, complete with shooting jets. Safety precautions are required.
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| Aquarius Update: Episode 3 - NASA
The Aquarius observatory is placed on top of its rocket and is readied for launch.
Keywords: What -- Aquarius
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| What's Up for June? - NASA
What's up for June? Solar system collisions! Hello and welcome. I'm Jane Houston Jones at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Keywords: Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); Where -- California
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| Spirit's Triumphs on Mars - NASA
Team members reflect on Spirit's six-years of roving Mars.
Keywords: What -- Mars
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| Going For A Spin - NASA
Engineers put the rover through spin tests to ensure smooth sailing in space.
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| Aquarius: Studying the Salt of the Sea - NASA
NASA's salt-seeking Aquarius ascends to the heavens this June. Find out how it can help answer questions about climate change.
Keywords: What -- Aquarius
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| The Challenges of Getting to Mars: Selecting a Landing Site - NASA
Scientists get closer to selecting a landing site for the Curiosity rover.
Keywords: What -- Mars
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| Aquarius Update: Episode 2 - Solar Panels Attached - NASA
Engineers attach and test solar panels to the Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft, as it's readied for launch.
Keywords: What -- Aquarius
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| Aquarius Update - NASA
Aquarius project manager Amit Sen of JPL presents the first in a series of updates leading up to launch of a mission to measure ocean salinity.
Keywords: What -- Aquarius; Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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| Voyager: Humanity's Farthest Journey - NASA
At the edge of the solar system.
Keywords: What -- Voyager
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| What's Up for May - NASA
All month long watch 4 planets and the moon gather just before sunrise.
Keywords: What -- Moon
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| How to Make a Crater - NASA
You can whip up a moon-like crater with cake ingredients. The activity works in classrooms, camps and at home.
Keywords: What -- Moon; What -- Crater
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| Mars Rover Goes From Shake to Bake - NASA
Curiosity will have to survive the extreme temperatures of Mars. Is the rover ready? Engineers put it through thermal tests to find out.
Keywords: What -- Mars
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| What's Up for April - NASA
Use the big dipper to find Saturn this month.
Keywords: What -- Saturn
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| Curiosity's Stunt Double Takes a Spin - NASA
Engineers test Curiosity's hill-climbing capabilities using her Earthbound twin.
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| Mixed Signals from Saturn - NASA
Saturn is sending out mixed signals in recent data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Keywords: What -- Saturn; What -- Cassini; What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
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| Stardust Swoops by Tempel 1 - NASA
This movie shows what it was like for NASA's Stardust spacecraft to fly by comet Tempel 1. It covers the period between 8:35:26 p.m. to 8:43:08 p.m. PST on Feb. 14, 2011 (4:35:26 a.m. to 4:43:08 a.m. UTC, Feb. 15, 2011, according to the clock kept aboard the spacecraft).
Keywords: What -- Stardust
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| Rover Shakedown - NASA
Engineers put the rover through a human-made earthquake to make sure nothing breaks on its trip to Mars.
Keywords: What -- Mars
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| Virtual Vesta - NASA
This video shows the scientists' best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet Vesta might look like. It was created as part of an exercise for NASA's Dawn mission involving mission planners at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and science team members at the German Aerospace Center and the Planetary Science Institute.
Keywords: What -- Vesta; What -- Dawn; Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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| First impressions of Stardust-NExT flyby of comet Tempel 1 - NASA
Scientists reveal sights and sounds of comet Tempel 1 flyby.
Keywords: What -- Stardust
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| Sounds of a Comet Encounter - NASA
During its Feb. 14, 2011, flyby of comet Tempel 1, an instrument on the protective shield on NASA's Stardust spacecraft was pelted by dust particles and small rocks, as can be heard in this audio track.
Keywords: What -- Stardust
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